Target Hiring for Lead Data Analyst at Bengaluru, India Full Time

Description:

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America’s leading retailers.​

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

Target Human Resources is well known for its signature ability to build the very best teams, and we infuse our work with Target’s distinctive retail brand by continuously experimenting, evolving and innovating. With the chance to positively impact nearly 350,000 people worldwide in our stores, distribution centers and headquarters, you’ll be a strategic partner to both the leaders and the team members who elevate and nurture the Target guest experience. Our dynamic, passionate and responsive team comprises specialized people-professionals from several diverse disciplines. We operate behind the scenes to create a progressive culture of value, respect, reward and professional advancement.

The Talent Analytics team’s mission is to empower a data driven approach to HR and people decisions regarding our global workforce. We are uniquely positioned to provide unbiased insights to unlock value and drive outcomes and to enable and influence HR and business strategy.

The Talent Analytics team

• Integrates into the business as strategic HR analytics partners and anticipates and uncovers stated or unstated needs.

• Listens and empowers team member and external stakeholder voice

• Uses our analytics expertise to test, measure, analyze, understand and answer various business questions

• Provide reporting to help inform on the current state of the business and help facilitate process at scale

• Connects our understanding across business and HR to deliver data driven products and solutions

• Provide meaningful insights and recommendations

About the role :

Our Data Analysts are expected to explore data, technologies, and the application of mathematical techniques to enable business insights. Data analysts accomplish this through a wide variety of skills including data wrangling, reporting, dashboarding, visualization, statistical analysis, modeling, and the presentation of recommendations and insight. Analysts will work within an agile environment, which requires active participation in ceremonies to accomplish the team’s goals. They also develop domain knowledge as they learn about their business area and support applying key data management principles like metadata management, data profiling, and documenting their data lineage.

• Actively exploring data for specific use cases

• Expertise in business domain and processes

• Creating measurable insights from the data to be shared

• Developing metrics, measurement strategy, reports, and statistics

• Documenting calculations, code, and adhering to data management principles

• Validating and testing data assets of others in the form of peer review

• Exploring statistical analysis that could be applied to the data

• Performing descriptive statistics including mean, variance, median, correlation

• Applies insights and testing in partnership with business users

• Active participant in team meetings

• Lead agile ceremonies

• Ability to work independently to turn business problems into data solutions

• Serve as a thought leader and mentor on business domain and analytical techniques to elevate team performance

About You:

• Must have 3+ years of college degree

• 7+ years’ work experience in data analysis or masters level education in business analytics, data science, etc.

• Demonstrated leader in knowledge and application of data, reporting, and analytics

• Proficient with various programming languages- SQL, R, Python

• Proficient with relational and non-relational databases

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education to continue to raise individual and team performance

• Strong domain specific knowledge in Human Resources data and processes

• Prior experience in human resources or talent/people analytics industry

• Math and/or Statistics:

• Mathematical logic (AND, OR NOT)

• Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

• Calculus (weighted averages, rates of change, single variable)

• Testing and Research Design:

• Apply the scientific method and experimental design

• Generate insight from observational data

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